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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY. MAY 9, 1901.
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MAKING FAST PASSAGES
TWO MORE OP THE JAJTUARY
FLEET FROM HERE ARRIVE OUT.
Cromartyshire 3Ialces a Renmrlcable
Run Txto ot the 3Iny Fleet
Ready for Sea.
Two more of the January fleet from
Portland reported out Tuesday, both of
them with fast passages to their credit.
The -German ship Eilbek, which has never
made any pretensions to speed, passed
Prawle Point Tuesday, after a rattling
run of 118 days, thus beating the H. S.
Charlotte's ""racing" run by two days.
The British ship Astracana, which was
also generally regarded as anything but
a ilyer, passed Prawle Point on Tues
day, after a good passage of 121 days.
The good, fast clipper Cromartyshire has
sustained her reputation as a flyer by
arriving out after a splendid run of 103
-days. She -ss-as badly damaged after leav
ing Portland In December, and put into
San Francisco for repairs. Her time from
Portland to San Francisco In spite of
her crippled condition was but IS days,
which would make her outward run from
Portland under most adverse circum
stances 521 days. The ship was delayed
In San Francisco 29 days undergoing re
pairs. Several of the December ships have not
yet arrived, and the Halewood, which
sailed from Portland three days ahead of
the Cromartyshire reached the other side
at the same time as the clipper in spite
of the delay of the latter in San Fran
cisco. But one of the November ships
Is still out from this port. The aspirant
for long passage honors is the British
ship Leicester Castle, which is out about
160 days. She was spoken a few days
ago comparatively close in, and will prob
ably be heard from in a few days.
and a. half or more!" Two thousand six
hundred and forty yards or more: One
wonders what conception the writer of
this letter could have had of what tho
human eye can see at that distance. He
was probably unaware of the fact that,
to hit a man a mile and a half off he
would have to point the barrel at a spot
In midair 1240 feet or so over his would
be victim! Another proposal born in
those perturbed days was to use the
rifle as a mlnature mortar, delivering
"withering volleys at high angles of ele
vation." Another Invoked the assistance
of the Times to bring it about that re
cruits learn to fire from the hip. for tho
reason that "it relieves him from the
terrible apprehension he has of the kick
of a rifle, which makes him sore all
over." The writer of this remarkable
letter had evidently never shot with a
modern service rifle, or he would have
known that there Is absolutely no kick
to dread In the Lee-iletford, Mauser or
Mannlicher
THE CHARTER OUTLINED
(Continued from First Pa--e.)
ELEVATORS SAVE DAY'S WORK
TWO MAT CARGOES.
Pa.nl Iwenberpr "Will Pioneer the
Wheat Fleet for Tnts 3Ionth.
The German bark Paul Isenberg cleared
yesterday for Queenstown or Falmouth
for orders with 71,00" bushels of wheat,
valued at $44,024. The Isenberg was dis
patched by Kerr. GIfford & Co., and has
been In the river but 18 days. The Ger
man ship Kereus, after a stay In the
river of but 15 days, finished loading last
evening. She was dispatched by Balfour,
Guthrie & Co., and has aboard a little
over 100,000 bushels of wheat. Both the
Jyenberg and Nereus loaded wheat here
a little over a year ago. The Paul Isen
berg will leave down the river today,
but the numerical strength of the fleet
In the "Willamette will remain the same,
as the British bark VImerIa arrived up
late last evening. The Vimerla left up
yesterday morning, and came very near
making the run "through by daylight."
FROM THE 1VEST COAST.
German Ship Xeclc Brings a Car so
of Aitrate to San Francisco.
The German ship Neck, which loaded
barley In Portland last season, is on her
way up the coast from a nitrate port,
with a part cargo of nitrate for San Fran
cisco. A large number of vessels have
been ordered north from the "West Coast
hince the nitrate business dwindled down
to Its present proportions, but the Neck
is about the first that has started with
cargo recently. She receives 7 shillings
per ton for the cargo, which Is Just about
what it will cost to load and discharge
It She is chartered outward from San
Francisco at 35 shillings, which Is bet
ter than the small rates now offering for
nitrate loading.
Will Be a Total Wreck.
CAPE TOWN, 3Iay 8. The mails, bag.
gage and passengers have been landed
from the British steamer Tantallon Cas
tle, which went ashore on Bobbin Island
during a fog, as she was about to anchor.
It was feared the steamer w.ill become a
wreck, as she is hard and 'fast on the
rocks and Js bumping and leaking. All
attempts to tow her off have failed. The
Tantallon Castle was bound from South
ampton for Table Bay.
Fiiruresr of an Old Man Wbo Once
Climbed Weary Stairs.
New "Fork Evening Post.
Recently an old man stood In the corri
dor of a big office building, with a watch
In one hand, making figures from time
to time ond the back of an envelope. There
were many who wondered what he was
doing.
He was computing how much time the
modern elevators In our high buildings
save to men in a day, and to one who spoke
to him he told how for years, away back
in the '60s, he had worked In the sixth
story of a building which was then one
of the highest in the city, or the country
either for that matter. How, though
young and spry then, he had dreaded that
climb up six sheer stair flights; how the
men in the place would draw lots to see
who, at luncheon time, should make the
journey, to the street to buy cakes and
pie for the noonday meal, and how he had
at times gone without his luncheon rather
than use up so much strength In climbing
the stairs. It took a minute and a half then
for a young man to go up, he said, but the
manager of the factory, who was more
than 50 years old and somewhat rheuma
tic, always spent four minutes In the up
ward struggle.
"I was just figuring on the time saved
by this modern appliance," the old man
continued, "and I calculate that it Is at
least four minutes for every young man
who goes to the twenty-fifth floor, and ten
minutes for your 'elderly gentlemen.'
These express elevators, stopping only
above the thirteenth floor, average forty
five seconds in reaching the top. Of
course we wouldn't have 20 or 30-story
structures If the modern elevator manu
facturers had not kept pace with the
architects and builders, but I am arguing
from the otner side." And he showed an
array of figures to prove that In a day's
average business, In which 2500 passengers
are carried, two whole working days are
gained.
It Is In New Tork, of course, with its
score of buildings that are 14 stories high
and over, that the elevator has reached
Its greatest development In the matter
of speed, the makers have vied with one
another until 800 feet a minute is the, rate
at which the cars can be propelled. This
means to the 20th floor of a building in
30 seconds, a velocity that Is gained by a
multiplication of gear wheels over which
tne car cables run.
Domestic and Foreign Ports.
ASTORIA. Or.. May S. Arrived at 10:45
-A 3VL. steamer Elmore, Xrom Tillamook.
Sailed at 6 A. M steamer Columbia, for
San Francisco: at 9 A. M., steamer Al
liance, for San Francisco and way ports.
Left up at 5 A. M.. British bark Vimerla.
Condition of the bar at 5 P. M., smooth;
weather, hazy, calm.
Port Ludlow. May S. Sailed Bark Ca
rondolet, for Callao.
San Francisco, May 8. Arrived Schoon
er Eliza Miller, from Coos Bay; steamer
Acme, from Sluslaw River. Sailed Ship
Glory of Seas, for Comox; steamer Geo.
TV. Elder, for Astoria: steamer Compeer,
for New Whatcom; schooner Gotama, for
Coos Bay; brig W. G. Irwin, for Roches
Harbor: steamer Rival, for "Wlllapa Har
bor; schooner Ralph J. Long, for Golofin
Bay.
Port Ludlow. May 8. Arrived May 7.--Steamer
Caithness, from Port Townsend.
Tacoma Sailed . May 7 Schooner De
fiance, for Honolulu.
San Diego. May 7. Arrived Emma Ut
ter, from Coos Bay.
Port Hadlock, May 7. Sailed Barken
tlne J. M. Griffith, for San Diego.
Seattle, May S. Sailed Schooner James
Bennett for Cape Nome. Sailed May 7.
Steamer Dolphin, for Skagway. Arrived,
juay a. toteamer iiertna, from Kodlak.
Tort Townsend, May 8. Arrived Steam
er Senator, from Dyea.
Falmouth, May 8. Arrived May 7. Ships
Halewood and Cromartyshire, from Ore
gon. Prawle PointPassed May 7. Ship Pal
grave, from Tacoma. for Queenstown;
ship Astracana, from Oregon, for Queens
town. Manila Sailed April 23. Bark Slxtus, for
Puget Sound.
Birkenhead. May 8. Arrived Ship Dur
ham, from Tacoma.
New York. May S. Sailed Victoria, for
Mediterranean ports.
Hong Kong. May 8. Arrived Empress
of Japan, from Vancouver, via Tokohama;
Hong Kong Maru, from San Francisco,
via Yokohama.
Liverpool, May S. Arrived Dominion,
from Portland.
Plymouth, May 8. Arrived Patricia,
from New York, for Cherbourg and Ham
burg. Queenstown, May S. Arrived "Waes
land. from Philadelphia. Sailed Ultonla,
for Boston, via Liverpool.
Rotterdam. May 8. Arrived Statendam,
from New York.
Souhampton. Maj- 8. Sailed Lahn, from
Bremen, for New York.
Boston. May S Arrived Peruvian, from
Glasgow.
New York. May 8. Arrived H. H.
Meier, from Bremen. Sailed St. Paul, for
Southampton: Friesland. for Antwerp;
Germanic, for Liverpool.
New York. May S. Arrived Manitou,
from London.
Glasgow. May 8. Arrived An chorla.
zrom jiew lorK.
New York. May
from Liverpool.
Hoquiam, Wash.
Schooner John A..
AT THE HOTELS.
THE PORTLAND.
w!l!?n' Y. . 'T H CurtIs. Astoria
E F Wittier, St LouIsW' Gibson, Los Angl9
H Lenz. NY il, D Hicks. San Fran
?) AH?a!,ne' NT 'K H Rts Satfnaw
C A Richardson. St LjWr S Sherwood, St Paul
G J Grau. Detroit r L McCarty. Phlla
H C Macauley & wlfe. W D Black, Phlla
Victoria. B C ij H Hooker, Norrls-
E Waldo Ward, N Y I town. Pa
T O Hilbourn, Chso 11 De La Montanpa, SF
AV JJ. Jacob j. Chlcacro
WTm Mack, South Bend
J Levy, San Fran
T Hallock. Ft Dodge
M J Connell & wife,
Seattle
Miss H Macauley, S F,
ti smitn, .perry. Or
A McCarney, N Y
W Atly. San Fran
Mrs J P Faull. Bakr C
F "W Fettyf-rove. S F I
J G Megler, BrookfleldJE M Smlthers
THE PERKINS,
H O Palen. San -Fran
Mr & Mrs J G Wood
worth, Seattle
C A TrephaBen. S F
B M Morgan, Chicago
D G Miller. Cincinnati
jC G Jacobs, Oregon C
tienry Harm, cny
A Hlnsband, St Paul
H T Stebblns, Seattle
C McL Brown & wf. do
E L McAllister & w.do
u ii uurnett
D Gocdsell. city
est Grcre
Henry Kratz, Clats
kanie
J R La Tourrette, S F
James bnlpes. Dalles
J P Hovey. Tekoa
Dr Beadle, San Fran
B E Harder, Eugene
Walter E Bloch, do
J D Holton, Boise
R C Mays, Elgin. Or
W W Edmondson,
uarainer. or
Mrs W W Edmondson,
uarainer, or
R A Church. San Fran
H J Rossi, Wallace. Id
.airs itossi, ao
Frank BIdwell, Union
P H Peterson. Cleone
I W Woods, Dallas
Mrs Woods. Dallas
Eugene Willis, Salem
Mrs E Willis. Salem
Mrs J H Bouncer, city
D P Ketchum, Dalles
Mrs E E Estes. Ashlnd
Mrs O B Estes, Astoria
R M Trumbell, McMIn
O P Graham, Warren-
ton
Gen G M Hyland, city
W A Glunz, Dawson
J Wise. San Fran
Mrs Wise. San Fran
J B Inman, Boise
Mrs O Olsen, Catlin
Miss Bessie Olsen, do
M M Bridges, Hilisboro
A J Molltor. San Fran
P J Shropshire. Hll-
gard
J C Willert, Tacoma
Mrs Grimes, Goldendal
J E Casey. Lincoln.
2eb
Albert L Stephens,
Seattle
I Ennls. Hilisboro
E W McCann, city
John Bridwell, Jr.
Amity, Or
Mrs Hamilton Smith,
Astoria
S B Leighton. Minnpls
Angus McF S Allan,
Chicago
C G Branch, St Joe
Win London, Seattle
O B Gates. Hilisboro
Edwin Sharpes, Tacoma
P J McGowan, Astoria
Jacob Slier, South Bend
M Manasse, Coshocton,
Ohio
T Barlow. Victoria
Mrs Henderson, Vancvr
C P Hogue, Oak Point
Mrs Hogue, Oak Point
J H Rlnearson. Grass
Valley
Dr H E Beers. Wasco
Wm Gray, Romeo.Mlch
F K Jorat. Dalles
Master Jorat, Dalles
Harry Whlchell, Santa
Barbara, Cal
Geo Whlchell, do
Emma Everett. Hoseb?
Emma Emmett do
R N Gorden, Seattle
Miss Gorden. Seattle
G S Thomas, Spokane
E C McReavy. Tacoma
J F Hart. Kelso
W J Bohan, city
Mrs k Newton. Moro
J R Goulter, Ilwaco
THE IMPERIAL
members there should be in the Council,
and It was the general opinion that the
number of wards should be reduced, a
Councilman elected from each ward, and
about the same number elected at large.
It was also deemed advisable that Coun
cllmen should be elected for longer terms
and their terms graduated, nottmore than
one-third to go out at one time.
Finally it was decided merely to recom
mend that a number of the Councilmen be
elected at large, and leave It to the board
to arrange the details. At no time dur
ing the discussion was the question of
salaries for Councilmen mentioned.
Administrative Officer Removable.
The next matter considered was the
power to be conferred on the Mayor. The
general opinion was that all officers who
help to determine the policy of the gov
ernment should be elected and that ad
ministrative officers (in order tx secure
STeater efficiency) should be appointed
and removable by the Mayor for cause.
This question was discussed at some
length. It was deemed that there should
be some way provided for removing ap
pointed officers when necessary. As it is
now, when a bad man secures an appoint
ment there Is no way of getting rid of
him. It was Anally decided to recommend
to the board that provision be made in
the charter for the appointment and re
moval of administrative officers by the
Mayor.
Controller.
It was suggested by Mr. Montague that
while they were centralizing power in
the Mayor, there should be one officer
who can check all departments, such offi
cer to be elected by the Council and under
their control.
After a brief discussion It was decided
to recommend that provision be made In
the charter for a fiscal and auditing offi
cer, or controller, who shall check the
accounts -and disbursements of all city
officers.
One 3Yut Too Hard to Crack.
The nex thing considered was the sub
ject of commissions whether it was better
to have separate commissions for depart
ments fire, police and water, or to place
the control of all departments In touch
with a common center by placing them
In the hands of a "board of control," or
some other body of men who would have
the interests of the city at heart.
This was considered the hardest propo
sition yet tackled. There were points in
favor of commissions and against them.
Some commissions had proved very satis
factory and others unsatisfactory. Argu
ments were advanced In favor of a
"board of control," and It was urged that
such a body take away from the powers
of the Council. It was also urged that
the powers of the Council were too lim
ited, and should be Increased.
Some believed in commissions, others
thought it desirable that all commissions
should be concentrated In a board of con
trol. It was also urged that a board of
control composed of heads of departments
would add no strength to the city govern
ment, and if thf re was a board of control
the members should hold office for reason
ably long terms, and all should not go
out at one time.
It was finally decided to lay this ques
tion over till next meeting.
Civil Service.
The question of civil service next came
up. All favored civil service rules being
applied to all city employes between the
heads of departments and laborers, cer
tain qualifications to be required, and
applicants for positions to be required to
pass examinations, and all appointments
and removals to be made on grounds of
efficiency only. It was decided to recom
mend this to the board.
The matter of granting franchises was
next taken up. It was the general idea
that stringent and specific limitations in
regard to granting franchises should be
contained in the charter. There weret
Tiowever, two sides to this question, and It
gave room for a very lengthy discussion.
The difference between old established
and wealthy cities and new cities anxious
to secure street railways and other Im
provements was spoken of, but, as it was
growing late and there -was another meet
ing Of the committee to be held before
preparing their report, It was decided to
lay the franchise question over.
The committee adjourned till next Mon
day afternoon at 4 o'clock.
CONCERNING SUMMER FALLOW
Joslnli West Contributes an Interest
ing: Article.
C. W. Knowles, Manager.
S. Arrived Majestic.
, May S. Arrived
from San Francisco
for Aberdeen. Arrived May 7 Schooner
Eva, from San Francisco, for Aberdeen.
Arrived May S Steamer Coronado, from
San Francisco for Aberdeen.
Queenstown, May S. Arrived Teutonic,
from Liverpool, and proceeded.
Liverpool. May S. Arrived Xomadlc,
from New Tork.
New Tork May S. Arrived Steamer
Servia, from Liverpool and Queenstown.
Fancy Shootlnfr.
Fortnightly Review.
In the hysterical days that followed
that dismal series of defeats a year ago
some extraordinary proposals made their
appearance In the press of this country.
One distinguished member of the House
of Lords, writing to the Morning Post,
seriously contended that our soldiers
should "be trained to "shoot at" one mile
A F Marter, San Fran
W L Whltmore, Chgo
N Bennett. Tacoma
John Barley. Tacoma
F W McGrath, St Paul
W E Hooer, Rosebrg
ur is v Hooter, do
T T Geer. Salem
J H D Gray, Astoria
u w Fulton. Astoria
Allen Bonebrake, Gol-
denaaie
J W Butler, do
C D Gabrlelson, Salem
L W Wade. Tacoma
H G Van Dusen, As
toria J T Apperson. Ores C
Edwin Rice, Obmpla
J R Flynn, Eugene
THE ST.
H F Snow
L E Dray. Kalama
F LouFigmont. Vesper
a traiey a: wile.
Knappa
J N Elliott
A T Wilson
Wm Hickman. Salem
John Bernhard, Salem
J u LiOegren, Ulats-
kanle
W St John. Powell's
Valley
Fred Gaither. Knapptn
G T Ivells. sumpter
J Claterbos, White
Salmon
Ralph Read
John Green
I A Da I. Clackamas
H L Colvin. Marshlnd
I R GUllhan
Al Colson
Gus Anderson, Wash
Victor Carlson, do
D H Tiller
John Teager. Jr. Sprngi
City. Fa
O E Elliott, Marshlnfl
W W Thurman, do
W J Stater. Kewberg
T B BIdwell, Astoria
C R Stewart, SanDIego
W A Haskins, Grant'B
Pass
Mrs Hasklna & 2 sons.
Grant's Pass
C A Chamberlain, Spok
Wm C Ripley. Tacoma
nay ueai. Helena
Mrs McFadden. dn
Mrs E E Cushman,Ta-
coma
Mrs Mary A Davis,
Seattle
Mrs Dickerson, do
F W Aust. San Fran
J A Webb, Medford
J D Merryman, Hilis
boro Fred K Barker, Astoria
J L Weaker, Boise
CHARLES.
J K Gaither, La Center
A G La Seim, Dallas
Thomas Devine, city
P D Long. Union. Or
Miss Belle Needlework,
Union. Or
T C Whltten. Clats-
kanle
Ernest Olday, Hemlng-
ford. Neb
Wm Leight, do
G M Gebo, Eufaula
F L Stevens & wf. Oak
Point
jMrs Robert r. Correll,
ouipies, rex
Willis Yoder
Hugh Glenn. Dalles
jW M Chandler, Mount
i-ieasant, wash
W F Jones. Butteville
Mrs Welst & dtr. Oak
Point
W M Reynolds. Wasco
L, il Preston & wife
W C Bingham
Ira E Bradley. Greenvl
H w Bradley, do
H J Wells, do
A Justin. do
N Nlckerson, Oregon
Hotel BrnnsTrlclc. Seattle.
European; flrst-class. Rates, 75c and up.
One block from depot Restaurant next
door.
Tacoma Hotel. Tacoma.
American plan. Rates. $3 and up.
Donnelly Hotel, Tacoma.
European plan. Rates. 50c and up.
Gorillas are occasionally seen In Kam
erun, near the German settlements, Last
April a German hunter shot one that
measured 2.7 meters, and weighed nearly
500 pounds. The natives ate the meat
CLATSOP, Or., May 7. (To the Editor.)
In The. Dally Oregonlan of April 26 there
Is an article from your Washington, D. C,
correspondent, headed, "Is Dead Set
Against It Secretary Wilson Condemns
Summer Fallow. Method Is Wrong In
Theory and Practice He Will Gladly
Convince Farmere."
While Secretary Wilson is right in many
things, as Is the editor who has charge
of the industrial department of The Ore
gonlan, I, with all due respect, beg leave
to differ with them in the matter or sum
mer fallow. I refer to the frequent edito
rial criticisms on this practice of the Ore
gon farmers.
It appears to the writer that Secretary
Wilson and the editor referred to are not
cognizant of all the facts of soil, climate
and other conditions In the Willamette
Valley. They seem to have an Idea that
Summer fallowing consists In repeated
plowlngs and exposure of the soil to the
rain and hot sun, to be alternately soaked
and roasted, which would undoubtedly be
attended with a great loss of nitrogen.
Just the opposite practice is in vogue.
The Summer fallow is plowed once In the
Spring, and usually harrowed, and if clod
dy, rolled or gone over with some Imple
ment to crush the clods. Directly there
Is a crop of wild oats, French pink, fern,
dog fennel and other weeds too numerous
to mention. This crop could be allowed
to grow to quite a volume and then be
turned under. But this is not desirable.
It would be exposing the soil too much
to the dry winds and hot sun of Summer
and an attendant loss of nitrogen. Clover
could have been sown, as suggested by
Secretary Wilson. But It would have
been useless. It would have stood as lit
tle show among the robber weeds as a
lamb among wolves. It would be a case
of the survival of the fittest, but not of
the best
But to return to the work in hand.
When the army of weeds have germinat
ed, and before they are firmly rooted, the
farmer goes over the fallow with some
implement to kill the weeds. A popular
one Is made of two bars of iron bolted
to three pieces of plank, at an expense
of $3 or $4. This scraper is run over the
fallow at Intervals of two or three weeks,
as the case may require, at an expense
for labor of about 25 cents an acre for
each time, and If properly done, all the
weed seed that Is near enough to the
surface to ever grow will have had their
ephemeral life and been killed, and the
soli moist enough to cause wheat to
come up readily during the dryest part
of the Summer, without rain or Irrigation,
If put in with a drill.
The writer once drilled In e field so
treated In July that had no rain on It un
til the last of September, with the result
of a luxuriant growth, on which sheep
were pastured from the middle of October
until the middle of April, with a net
profit of HO an acre, and still a harvest of
50 bushels of wheat per acre.
I point to another object-lesson. Will
iam Culver, the owner and cultivator of
the original. General Gaines' donation
claim, three miles east of Independence,
in the Red Hills.
The General was a doughty warrior and
a fair politician, but his principal suc
cess in farming consisted In raising in
their early stage of development a volun
teer crop of oak grubs, which, by the way,
,-are -quite valuable for firewood for the
Salemltes, what there are left of them.
However, Mr. Culver harvested the prin
cipal part of them 20 odd years ago, with
the help of the heathen Chinee, contrary
to the protest of the loyal labor element
of that period, and consigned them to the
flames.
The virgin soil yielded from 20 to 30
bushels of wheat to the acre, varying
with the seasons. The crop preceding the
last, one year ago, which was a failure
from the alleged Hessian fly and wheat
aphis, yielded 50 bushels per acre and a
moderate income from the pasturage of
sheep. His method is as follows:
The year after the wheat Is harvested
the land Is not plowed at any time, but
pastured with sheep. This gives the wild
oats and other weeds, of which he has
but a minimum, a chance to germinate
and be killed by the sheep. His princi
pal weed (?) is wild clover, which is a
naive of the Willamette Valley and all
the Coast counties of Oregon. 1 asked
Mr. Culver why it didn't grow In my
field, adjoining his. He said it would If
they would let it The fools had to go
and kill it The second year he Summer
fallows as above described and keeps
one eheep per acre. His sheep shear from
10 to 13 pounds a head, which, with the
Increase, is not a bad income for the two
years his land Is storing up energy.
Two years ago he nersonallv nlowed an
SO-acre field with two horses. He Is an
old soldier of the Civil War, past 60 years
old. He does not "dIow deen while slug
gards sleep," but lightly, In part to pro
tect the clover roots, and in part to avoid
turning up the shelly gravel, of which
there is considerable In his land. By his
method he farms 250 acres, with two
horses, one cow, a band of sheep and a
few pigs. Not very diversified, but nev
ertheless, a, decided success.
Webster's Unabridged gives the defini
tion of fallow, "the plowing or tilling of
land without sowing for a season; as
Summer fallow properly conducted, has
ever been found a sure method of destroy
ing weeds. By a complete Summer fair
low land Is rendered tender and mellow.
The fallow gives It a better tilth than
can be given by a fallow crop."
Whether Webster or Wilson was the
better farmer I don't care to discuss. The
farmer was a successful philologist, the
latter is a statesman.
In this year of grace 1 of the 20th cent
ury, the successful farmer does not hang
his faith to the sleeves of either Webster
or Wilson, or any one else. He Is omniv
orous. He reads, he observes, he travels
and he conducts original experiments. He
is said to be made of clay, but if a suc
cess he was not made of putty nor of
dough, and the clay needs to be fairly
.well baked.
A few words In regard to clover, and I
will close this already too long letter.
The theory stated by Secretary Wilson
that It and other legums secrete nltrogren
from the air and fix It in the soil by
uu-upciauuu wiiii Dactena, nodules on
the roots, very likely may be correct. I
remember 60 years ago, when I was a
boy of 10, by father, while cutting a piece
of fallen tangled clover with a scythe
about five feet long, assuaged his back
ache by congratulating himself that he
was getting a fertilizer from the air by
the clover. Ten to 20 years afterwards
that theory was considered exploded. In
its place, it was contended that the tap
root of the clover struck down deeper in
the subsoil than the feeding ground of
other vegetation and brought up the
nitrogen and deposited It In the nodules
on the roots near the surface. Now the
theorists have "swung round the circle,"
and back into the air again.
Professor French, formerly In charge
of the experiment station at Corvallls,
advocated sowing clover on Summer fal
lowed land in September without any oth
er crop. I think the plan a good one.
The practice of plowing clover tinder
appears to me to be a very wasteful one.
Nearly If not quite as good results, so
far as fertilizing the land, could be ob
tained by feeding the clover to stock and
plowing In their excretions, with far more
profit.
I never heard of any eight or 10 bushel
crop on Summer fallow in the Willamette
Valley two years ago. Probably Secre
tary Wilson referred to Eastern Oregon.
Respectfully, JOSIAH WEST.
FIELD FOR AMERICANS
ISLAND POSSESSIONS ADAPTED
COFFBE-GROWING.
TO
This Country Is Now Sending: Away
a xattlc Over 91,000,000 a Week
for This Article. .
DAILY CITY STATISTICS.
Marriage Licenses.
William H. Druschel, 26; Minnie L. Kel
ler. 20.
Gottfried rmrlg, 24; Elizabeth Kru-
ger, 23.
Perry E. Parmelee, 23; Jennie B. Till
man, 21.
John B. Curtis, 48; Delia Mecklin, 23.
Peter H. Peterson, -41; Grace S. Cope
land, 43.
George Naeve, 29; Margaret Ingalls, 27.
Building Permit.
Pacific Transfer Company, barn. Sev
enth street, between Hoyt and Irving,
$2160.
Birth Return.
May 4, girl to wife of C. t O. Pick, 391
union avenue.
Contagions Disease.
B. F. Goodpasture, old St. Vincent's
Hospital, diphtheria.
Death Returns.
May 6, John Hotts, 74 years, Good Sa
maritan Hospital, pneumonia.
May 6, Joseph D. Merwln, 10 years, 41
East Seventh street North, pericarditis.
Real Estate Transfers.
Edward Renfer and wife to Mary
Wallenbarger and Catherine E.
Stephens, lot 8, block 66, Stephens'
Addition, May 4 $1500
Henry Jones and wife to William
Bates, fractional lots 7 and 8, block
72, Stephens Addition, April 19 200
Winnie Richards, administratrix es
tate ot juary Ann ucnards, to John
Miebue, lot 2. block 265, Couch's Ad
dition, May 6 1900
5. ii. uarter et ux. to J. J. Stout et
ux., lots 40 and 41, block 40, Penin
sular Addition No. 3, May 8 50
P. T. Smith et al. to John Carlson,
.84 acre, Jersey street, James John's
Addition to St. Johns, May 1 580
Jacob Hengeveld and wife to Gus G.
Hengeveld, lot 5, block 31, Llnnton.
May 6 1
Charles L. Meyers to John Epperly,
lots 1, 2, 3 and 4, block 25, Columbia
Heights, February 20 1000
Pacific States Savings, Loan & Build
ing Co. to- same, loto 1 and 2, block
1, Roselawn, March 19 450
William Ladd et ux. to Charles H
Carey, lots 22, 23 and 26, block 6,
Riverdale, May 7 100
Mary Elizabeth Aaris and husband
to Isabel May Frazer, lot 3, block 2,
Excelsior. May 7 im
JKicnara wiuiams ana wife to David
McKean and Amos Bulrgy, lots 2
and 3, block 122, Couch's Addition
May 7 : .' 3500
Ole C. Otterson to Minnie H. Otterson.
lot 50, Newhurst Park, containing 5
acres; lots Wallace, Idaho, Insur
ance, mining claims, etc, January 18 1
Ii. T. Peery and wife to Henry Hllser,
east 33 1-3 feet lot 26, block 2, Alblna
April 30 .' 450
Pacific Coast Abstract Guaranty & Trust
Co., A. B. Manley secy.; W. Y. Masters
atty. Abstracts, trusts, title insurance,
loans, 201-5-6-7 Falling bldg.. 3d and Wash
PERSONAL MENTION.
Charles Kohn, who has been' confined to
his rooms at the Hotel Portland for a
week, Is Improving.
Frederick V. Holman left last night
for San Francisco, where he will speak
next week on the cultivation of roses In
Oregon before the Pacific Coast Flower
Congress.
NEW TORK, May 8. Arrived from Port
land, D. W. Tlllford and wife, at the
Fifth Avenue.
WASHINGTON. .May 7. The nrosDect
of a return of permanently peaceful con
ditions in the Philippines, and the" pres
ent existence of conditions In Porto Rico
and Hawaii favorable to American pro
ducing and commercial enterprises, lends
additional Interest to some figures just
compiled by the Treasury Bureau of Sta
tistics regarding the coffee consumption
of the United States and of the world.
The people of the United States are send
ing but of the country a little over $1,000,
000 a week In payment for coffee con
sumed In this country, all of which could
be readily produced in Porto Rico, Ha
waii and the Philippine Islands, which
have already shown their ability to pro
duce coffee of a high grade commanding
nign prices in the markets of the world.
Porto Rican coffee has long bee nlooked
upon as of high grade, and for many
years has commanded high prices In the
markets of Europe; and.the developments
of coffee culture In Hawaii during the
past few years have also been satisfactory
In the quality of coffee produced and the
prices realized. In the Philippines the
product Is of high grade, and the fact
that in physical conditions and climate
the Islands are similar to those of Java,
the greatest coffee-producing island in
the world, suggests great possibilities to
those who desire to see American money
expended under the American flag. The
fact that the United States Is by far
the greatest coffee-consuming country of
the world, and Is steadily Increasing its
consumption, further suggests that Amer
ican capital and energy may turn their
attention to this promising field now
opened in the islands where American
enterprise can safely enter upon business
undertakings.
Our coffee Importations during the nine
months ending -with March, 1901, amounted
to 617,344,000 pounds, with a value of ?4o,
218,000, a sum nearly $5,000,000 in excess of
the value of the coffee Imports of the
same months of the preceding fiscal year,
Indicating that for the full fiscal year the
total value of the coffee Imported Into the
United States will be about $60,000,000.
Even this is somewhat below the annual
average cost of coffee Imported during
the decade just ended, the reduction In
total value being due to the fall of about
one-half In the Import price, though dur
ing the past few months the price has
again materially advanced, and 617,344,000
pounds- Imported In nine months of the
fiscal year 1901 cost 545,218,000, while 633,590,
000 pounds imported in nine months of
the preceding year cost but $40,50S,000.
The United States is by far the largest
coffee-consuming country of the world,
as will be seen by the following table,
which shows the importations of coffee
into the principal countries of Europe and
Into the United States In 1899:
Net Imports of coffee
Total con
sumption Imported into pounds.
Russia 18,396,000
United Kingdom 29,120,000
Italy 31,222,000
Austria-Hungary 92.180,000
France 179,120,000
German Empire 343,501,000
United States 801,757,000
The following table shows the total im
ports of coffee Into the United States by
fiscal years, and its value from 1893 to 1901:
Consumption,
Pounds
Imported.
..563,4G9,068
..550,934,337
..652,20S,975
. .580.597,915
..737.645.670
ISaS SiO,514,4o
1899 .. 831,827,063
1900 787,991,911
1901 (9 mos.).. 617.343,868
Our coffee Importations are drawn
chiefly from the following countries: Bra
zil, from which we Imported in nine
months of the present fiscal year 505.5S1,
576 pounds; other South American coun
tries, 47,461,000 pounds; Central American
countries, 25,674,000 pounds; Java and other
East Indies, 11,033,000 pounds; West Indies,
5.777.0CO pounds; other Asia and Oceanlca.
2,367,000 pounds, while large quantities of
coffee produced in Asia and the Orient are
reshipped to the United States from Eu
ropean countries, the United Kingdom
having sent us 2,653,000 pounds in the nine
months under consideration, and Ger
many 3,307,000 pounds during the same
period.
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You hear these words every day ; as
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often are these words repeated. More
than likely you speak the same signifi
cant -words yourself, and no doubt you
do feel far from well most of the time.
Mrs. Ella Bice, of Chelsea, "Wis.,
whose portrait we publish, writes that
she suffered for two years with bearing-down
pains, headache, backache,
and had all kinds of miserable feelings,
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If you are troubled with pains,
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reluctance to go anywhere, headache,
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absolutely fireproof; electric llsl-t
and artesian Tvaier; perfect xuuit:..
tion and thorough ventilation, ele
vators ran day and nlffht.
Per
capita,
pounds.
.98
204
4.62
6.12
10.73
Year
1893
1894
1895
1896
1S97
Price, per cap.
cents, pounds.
14.0 8.31
16.4 8.30
14.7 9.33
14.6 8.11
11.0 10.12
7.4 U.6S
6.5 10.79
6.5 9.81
7.2
the sight of food, was not well pleased.
Refreshments were served In the base
ment, in a room too small to accommo
date the 6000 guests, but quite large
enough to contain the provisions, which
were scarce Indeed. In the cloakrooms
the committee in charge lost their heads.
visitors lost their hats, and it Is stated
on good authority that the sulphurous
vapors which rose In the vicinity of the
place where Horace Greeley searched for
his hat during two hours were stifling.
It is recorded that one gentleman walked
to Capitol Hill, two miles. In dancing
pumps and barehsaded, and that many
frightened women still cowered in the
corners of the dressing-rooms at dawn the
next morning. So, in preparing for
Grant's second ball, the committee made
elaborate arrangements in order that these
unpleasantnesses should not again occur.
E
lectric Appliances.
Care of Plants in Spring.
Ladies' .Home Journal.
In the Springtime, when plants are'
making strong and rapid growth, particu
lar attention must be given to training
them. If neglected In this respect they
soon get beond control, and the only way
to bring them Into subjection then is
by sacrificing a good deal of the growth
they have made. This there Is no need
of doing if the training is begun in the
right way and at the right time. If a
branch is inclined to outgrow others,
pinch off the end of it and keep all such
branches from growing by pinching until
other branches have had a chance to
catch up. If a plant Is not bushy and
compact, make It so by 'pinching off the
ends of all Its branches. Keep up this
treatment until as many branches have
started as you think the plant ought to
have. If you desire a plant to grow in
tree form, train it to one stalk until It
reaches the height you desire and then
nip off Its top and force It to branch.
Save the branches at the top to form the
head of the tree. If you want a shrubby
plant, begin the pinching process when
It is small, thus forcing it to branch
close to the pot. The old staying of "as
the twig is bent the tree inclines" applies
pertinently to the training of plants when
In their early stages of development.
Discretion is the price of
health.
Dr. SanderTs Electric Her-
cuiex repairs damages arising
from early indiscretions.
Weak and Nervous Men: Read
"Strength, Its Use and Abuse
by Men."
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"Write for jny "Warning" about certain
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"When Horace Greeley Lost His Hat.
National Magazine.
A very distinguished assemblage hon
ored Grant's ball, which was held In the
newly completed north wing of the Treas
ury building. Elaborate preparations were
made for dancing, the manager, by tele
graphic communications, keeping the
dance moving simultaneously on three
floors. But the man who preferred eating
to dancing. andcould not get even within
Dr. A. T. Sa
Cor. Fourth and Morrison
Portland . . . Oregon
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"WHAT DO THE CHILDREN DRINK?
Don't give them tea or coffee. Have you tried
the new food drink called GRAIN-O? It Is de
licious and nourishing and takes the place of
coffee. The more Graln-O you give the chil
dren the more health you distribute through
their sj stems. Graln-O is made of pure
grains, and when properly prepared tastes like
the choice trades of coffee but costs about A
as much. All grocers sell it. 10c and 25c
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